The Latest News, Announcements And Rumours From The World Of Cars
This is the new Volkswagen Polo BlueGT which has just appeared from beneath a silk cover at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. It’s also the second most powerful Polo you can buy. With 138bhp from the turbocharged 1.4-litre petrol engine the warm hatch slots into the range between the 104bhp 1.2 TSI Polo and the [...]
This is the new Volkswagen Cross Coupe Concept. It has the Range Rover Evoque firmly in its sights and we’ve seen it before, at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show last December to be precise. Click Here For The Tokyo Cross Coupe Concept Back then it was painted silver and powered by an advanced plug-in hybrid [...]
The Volkswagen Up is a master of disguise. It can turn its hand to almost anything. And keen to show the world how versatile it can be, the good people from Volkswagen are heading to Geneva with another batch of Matchbox sized puns. Four new Up concepts for your delectation. Introducing the Swiss Up, Winter [...]
Hairdressers and estate agents across the land, prepare to squeal with delight. This is the new 2013 Volkswagen Golf GTI Cabriolet and it’s heading to Geneva next week. It’s also the first open-top Golf GTI since the first generation model all these years ago. Compared to the hatchback it has slightly less boot space, but [...]
The new Volkswagen Golf GTI will be lighter, more powerful and faster than the current model. The seventh-generation hot hatch will also be rather clever when it appears towards the end of 2012. So let’s take a look at these elements in turn. Lighter Golf GTI Thanks to a high-strength body shell, advanced suspension and [...]
The finalists for the prestigious World Car Of The Year awards have been announced. Two awards are up for grabs; the World Car Of The Year 2012 and the World Performance Car Of The Year 2012. The ten finalists in each category were selected by a jury of 66 international car journalists from Europe, Asia [...]
Volkswagen has confirmed that the sporty GT version of their new Up city car is heading for the production line. The Volkswagen Up GT was one of six Up concepts that appeared at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Looking all cool and muscular, the pre-production car featured 17 inch alloys, bigger air intakes, [...]
The Volkswagen Up is getting an extra set of doors for 2012. Volkswagen has released photos of the five-door version of their award winning Up. First seen at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show in September as the Cross Up concept, the five-door city car will go on sale across Europe during 2012. So what’s different? [...]
The annual What Car awards ceremony took place in London on January 11th and awarded 17 prestigious titles. Judged by a panel of journalists from the What Car magazine headed by editor Chas Hallett, German manufacturers did exceptionally well, collecting 10 of the 16 category awards and the overall car of the year title. Winners [...]
A total of 119,188 new cars found a UK home among the mince pies and Christmas jumpers during December 2011. But the figures published by SMMT show that new car sales in Britain fell by 3.7% compared with December 2010. As expected, the Ford Fiesta was the best selling car of the month. It also [...]
